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  1. Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic , religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte , and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. [4]

  2. Jun 23, 2024 · Harriet Martineau (born June 12, 1802, Norwich, Norfolk, England—died June 27, 1876, near Ambleside, Westmorland) was an essayist, novelist, journalist, and economic and historical writer who was prominent among English intellectuals of her time.

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  3. Dec 29, 2020 · Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), was the first woman sociologist and is also referred to as the “mother of Sociology” by many of the contemporary sociologists who are bringing back her works into prominence.

  4. Feb 3, 2020 · Born in 1802 in England, Harriet Martineau is considered to be one of the earliest sociologists, a self-taught expert in political economic theory who wrote prolifically throughout her career about the relationship between politics, economics, morals, and social life.

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  5. Nov 4, 2021 · Writing to her doctor brother-in-law in 1839, famed British writer Harriet Martineau complained of the “inability to stand or walk, aching and weariness of the back, extending down the legs...

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  6. The daughter of a Unitarian Norwich cloth manufacturer, she shot to fame in 1832 as author of Illustrations of Political Economy – twenty-five short stories showing how economic conditions impacted on the lives of ordinary people in a variety of social environments.

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  8. Mar 1, 2010 · The career of Harriet Martineau is difficult to place in a feminist narrative of literary history. Although Martineau was a life-long advocate of women's rights, she disapproved of feminists who drew attention to their personal lives in their work.

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